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Show 00 BRIGHAM LIGHT PLANT OPERATING DKIGHAM Nov. 3.--After a shut-, down since Monday morning la.st the Krlgham municipal electric power plant was put In operation yesterday ; 'afternoon at 4 o'clock. I During this time the city has been without electric light m.i 0,, which caused the shutting down of the new. paper plants, the motion picture Ishows, the laundry, woolen mills and m other institutions. Th-- 1 Ltlzi 1 .... Kperh need 1 ditlona ol olden times In the matter of light and, : 10m er; 1 ii ng com i" 1 led t" u.--' la m --and --and candles for light. The shutting down of the plant was cau ed by the rolling ol j i g ro down the mountainside, which became be-came loosened above the pipe line in ' some manner, and as it descended the, isldehill It struck the stave pipe, cutting 1 a large hole In It. This let u flood of! water out. which washed a large gulley 1 in the hillside, leaving the pipe line 1 uspended la the air The w 1 Ighl w 1 -. .it foi the line to sustain Itself, I 'and about 100 feet 01 sta 0 plp 1 1 I in. shutting off the water that propels the machinery at the plant. Cit Manager C. O. Roskellcy put a large force of men and teams at work to r.p.u: the break, and the damage' was repaired In record time, consider ling the extent of the damage and the bnd weather conditions. snow and Bleel falling in the mountains practically prac-tically all the time and th weather jextremc-ly cold. no |